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What's important?

3/11/2013

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Homeschooling gives you the opportunity to think about what you really want your kids to learn. Sure, all the usual stuff comes up - addition, spelling, the three r's, but then you start going a little deeper. What do I consider important?
Honesty?
Compassion?
Gratitude?
Kindness?
Creativity?
How do I 'teach' these things? These abstract nouns which don't come with step by step manuals and progress charts.
How do I teach someone how great it feels to make somebody else feel good?
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How do you encourage them to not only 'learn about' art, but incorporate creativity into their daily lives?
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How do you teach them to share their curiosity with others, even those younger and less experienced then themselves? How do you encourage them to develop empathy for the experiences of others (such as an 80 year old Dutchman and his life as a boy during WW2).
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Experience.
I now realise that so many things cannot be taught, they can only be experienced and the learning be absorbed consciously or unconsciously by this embodied participation.
This is why I consider giving the boys a massage filled with love to be as valuable as doing their spelling test.
What do you value?
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